Union: Police not told boy's gun might be a toyThe head of a Cleveland police union says the officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy last month were not told by a dispatcher that the gun might be a toy or the suspect a child as initially relayed by a 911 caller.

New House budget chairman, Ga.'s Tom Price, to follow Ryan frameworkThe incoming Republican chairman of the House Budget panel says he's going to follow outgoing chairman Paul Ryan's lead by drafting a fiscal blueprint that would balance the budget in 10 years and call for transforming Medicare into a system that places future retirees in private health insurance plans.

Mudflows spur evacuations in Southern CaliforniaA dangerous storm system blamed for two deaths in Oregon, thousands of power outages in Washington and flooded roadways in the San Francisco Bay Area pushed into Southern California on Friday, causing mudslides and evacuations.

Gainesville students earn national theater honorStudents from Play On Players in Gainesville and a cast of younger students in the same group, The Petite Poppers, have been accepted into the 2015 Junior Theater Festival happening January 16-18 in Atlanta.

Projector opens up new worlds at UNG planetariumWhen the George E. Coleman Sr. Planetarium at the University of North Georgia's (UNG) Dahlonega Campus resumes public shows in January, a new DigiStar 5 Full Dome Digital Planetarium Projector will allow visitors to view an accurate depiction of the night skies from planets millions of miles away.